Non-authoritative answer

[David Botham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of FabienM
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 6:12 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Non-authoritative answer
> 
> hello
> 
> here is the result of a nslookup : nslookup xxx.mydomain.com
> ns1.ameritech.net
> 
> Server:  ns1.ameritech.net
> Address:  206.141.251.2
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:    xxx.mydomain.com
> Address:  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> 
> can this be a reason why some of the users having a mail acount on
> xxx.mydomain.com SOMETIMES can't send mail to another mailbox on
> xxx.mydomain.com ???

Probably not.  The non-authoritative answer indicates that the server
that returned the answer to you had the answer in cache and gave you
that answer (rather than going to get it from the source [one of the
servers that is authoritative])

Pete:  did I get one right? Or, should I get an afternoon Dew?

> 
> thanks for ur help
> FabienM
>